Pit or mining lamp.



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RICHARD CLARK WEST, OF ROSTRAVER, PENNSYLVANIA.

PIT OR MINING LAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,281, dated February13, 1900.. Application filed February 3,1899. Serial No. 704,441. (Nomodel.)

To 0% whom it-may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD CLARK WEST,

a citizen of the United States, residingin Rostraver township,county ofVvestmoreland, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulPit or Mine Lamp, of which the fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of anordinary pit or mining lamp provided with my improved protector, whichis constructed and arranged in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 isan inverted plan View of the base of the lamp,

showing the manner in which the lower end of the protector is attachedin position. Fig.

3 is a perspective view of the protector detached from the lamp.

To put my invention into practice with a miners lamp a of ordinaryconstruction, I provide a strip of spring metal I) and attach one end tothe spout c ashort distance above the base of the same and the otherextremity beneath the base of the lamp in such a manner that an openspace will be formed between the base of the spout and the protector, asshown at Fig. 1 of the drawings.

The advantages of this protector are the protection to the base of thespout and to that portion of the bottom immediately below, which will berecognized by any practical miner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- A miners lamp provided witha protector which consists of a strip of spring metal secured to thebottom of the lamp passed around the rim at the front thereof andsecured to the lower portion of the spout, substantially as described.

RICHARD CLARK WEST. Witnesses:

LoUIs P. FLIOKINGER, Jr., ADAM BOTTENFIELD.

